Well done Hannah!

Hannah West did a great job on her undergraduate independent research project “Assessing Saltmarsh Efficacy as a Nutrient Sink in Multiple Shoreline Types”. She measured nutrient fluxes in several marshes including: natural, restored, seaward of a bulkhead, landward of a granite sill, landward of an oyster reef, and down stream from a wastewater treatment plant. Her results showed that marsh sediments in all of the settings she sampled denitrified pulses of nitrate.2016-09-09 10.10.10